Omphale

Role: queen of Lydia · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.6

🌐 Also appears in: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Omphale)

Life events

• Hermes sold Hercules, who became Omphale's slave for three years.(Apollodorus, Library 2.6 · 📍 Lydia)
  • With: Heracles
  • “After the delivery of the oracle, Hermes sold Hercules, and he was bought by Omphale, daughter of Iardanes, queen of Lydia”

Apollodorus, Library 2.6

• servant: Heracles (Omphale bought Hercules as a slave.) “he was bought by Omphale, daughter of Iardanes, queen of Lydia”
• parent: Iardanes “Omphale, daughter of Iardanes”
• married with Tmolus “to whom at his death her husband Tmolus had bequeathed the government”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• child: Agelaus (parent->child) “by Omphale he had Agelaus”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.